New roots

[thesummerqueen]

Anything with the 'ability to sequester excess atmospheric carbon' is a good idea.

As long as they don't cut down rainforests to plant GM crops...

GM crops are (among other things) an attempt to use less space more effectively. There was also an article out of New Scientist that discussed manipulating genes in relation to the amount of chlorophyll in the plant - apparently plants actually produce too much in some cases and don't process sunlight as efficiently as they could. I wish I could provide the link to the full article but New Scientist has relegated it to its back issues and you need a subscription to see it - it's in the September archive I think.

At any rate - there have also been studies that suggest that the rainforests don't help quite as much as environmentalists would have you believe. Not that it's any reason to go cutting them down - I was a Ferngully child myself. But it's funny that a lot of the people you see who are FOR saving the rainforest are AGAINST GM crops because they don't live in reality. More efficient crops means less space needed, less competition against cattle (which are their own problem), less viable land sought after.

It's such a ridiculous thing to fight against - these scientists are using a laboratory to eliminate thousands of years of cross breeding to produce strains that will survive in just about any climate imaginable. Imagine the ills we could wipe off this planet if the dumbasses in Green Peace and the organics movement and the like didn't keep nay-saying tested products because of their own ideological beliefs.

Hungry people are angry people, and also easily manipulated. Take away the constant struggle for food, and you'd see a lot of problems in the world start to disappear.